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Let's Hear it Folks ! You Might be a FR8DOG if......
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siouxicide
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You haven't landed upwind for months.
Some uppity citation driver tells you to fuel his plane and you consider rolling up in the FBO's LL truck for a good laugh.
When the FBO comes to the plane looking for the pilot and they just can't figure out who.
You've ever thought 1sm and 400' OVC is practically VFR.
You've had to remind yourself to actually pay attention on an ILS to 100' & 1/2sm.
You've answered your cell on said ILS.
You've shot an ILS to mins at Vle.
Another pilot on company freq. is concerned about a problem with a plane and your answer is "aww that one just does that."
You enjoy watching the static glow on the tips of your props and then get annoyed when a lightning strike takes it away.
You've ever air surfed.
You've had to wake up Center.
Center has had to wake you up.
You've had to explain to everyone at your second job why you actually live 200+ miles away and they still don't get it.
Some uppity citation driver tells you to fuel his plane and you consider rolling up in the FBO's LL truck for a good laugh.
When the FBO comes to the plane looking for the pilot and they just can't figure out who.
You've ever thought 1sm and 400' OVC is practically VFR.
You've had to remind yourself to actually pay attention on an ILS to 100' & 1/2sm.
You've answered your cell on said ILS.
You've shot an ILS to mins at Vle.
Another pilot on company freq. is concerned about a problem with a plane and your answer is "aww that one just does that."
You enjoy watching the static glow on the tips of your props and then get annoyed when a lightning strike takes it away.
You've ever air surfed.
You've had to wake up Center.
Center has had to wake you up.
You've had to explain to everyone at your second job why you actually live 200+ miles away and they still don't get it.
skytrucker
That's a 10-4 good buddy
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- Nov 29, 2001
- Posts
- 52
Goodyear?... no, the worst.
You tell people what you do for a living and they get excited...
You explain further that you fly fr8, and they ask, "do you ever want to be a "real" pilot?
You ever been loaded so far aft, you pushed the yoke full forward while taxiing.
Seen a lear sitting on the mains only after a load job gone bad.
Take your own pilllows to the outstation.
Walked more than one mile to sleep because there is no car and the company wouldn't even think of paying for a taxi.
Have the same airports and flight times six days in a row in your log book.
Have some major malfunction, report it over company radio, and someone else chimes in, "it did that last time". (thanks for nothing, A$$hole)
Ever had a fellow company pilot tell you, "I don't write up the plane because the maintence guy gets mad at me."
Those were the days
You tell people what you do for a living and they get excited...
You explain further that you fly fr8, and they ask, "do you ever want to be a "real" pilot?
You ever been loaded so far aft, you pushed the yoke full forward while taxiing.
Seen a lear sitting on the mains only after a load job gone bad.
Take your own pilllows to the outstation.
Walked more than one mile to sleep because there is no car and the company wouldn't even think of paying for a taxi.
Have the same airports and flight times six days in a row in your log book.
Have some major malfunction, report it over company radio, and someone else chimes in, "it did that last time". (thanks for nothing, A$$hole)
Ever had a fellow company pilot tell you, "I don't write up the plane because the maintence guy gets mad at me."
Those were the days
smellthejeta
The plane I solo'd in
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KeroseneSnorter
Robust Member
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- Oct 26, 2003
- Posts
- 1,530
1. You not only know, but have used every one of the emergency memory items on your aircraft.
2. You have manually cranked down the gear more than twice.
3. You have actually used the control lock as an inflight windshield deicer.
4. You compare prop spinner ice formations at the end of a run with your buddy.
5. You spend all night playing with the radar because its the first time you actually had one that worked in 6 months.
6. You smoke a cigar, fart, spill coffee, and pick your nose in flight.....and nobody cares.
7. You have gone a month flying around the northeast in winter with no heater.
8. Refer to 7. You actually miss your quilt wrapped around your legs during flight after the heater is fixed.
9. You know all the ATC and ILS frequencies by memory for a 7.5 hour flight time work night.
10. You actually do fly 1100 hours a year.
11. You have ever written up a vibration in the left engine 7 times, maint. responded all 7 times with "ops check ok"
12 See 11. You write the catastrophic engine failure up as "Your ops checks suck"
13. You have 2 destroyed Continental cyclinders in your garage being used as screw holders.....and you do not remember which engine failures that those particular two came from.
14. You get ramp checked by a fed who is concerned about the amount of oil leaking from the right engine, and your response to him is "You should have seen the one I had last night!"
15. You have landed with one feathered at night and didn't even bother to inform ATC because you didn't want to wake up the boys in the firehouse.
16. See 15. The tower never even noticed.
17. You have shot an ILS to minimums with no instrument panel lights by holding a flashlight in your teeth.
2. You have manually cranked down the gear more than twice.
3. You have actually used the control lock as an inflight windshield deicer.
4. You compare prop spinner ice formations at the end of a run with your buddy.
5. You spend all night playing with the radar because its the first time you actually had one that worked in 6 months.
6. You smoke a cigar, fart, spill coffee, and pick your nose in flight.....and nobody cares.
7. You have gone a month flying around the northeast in winter with no heater.
8. Refer to 7. You actually miss your quilt wrapped around your legs during flight after the heater is fixed.
9. You know all the ATC and ILS frequencies by memory for a 7.5 hour flight time work night.
10. You actually do fly 1100 hours a year.
11. You have ever written up a vibration in the left engine 7 times, maint. responded all 7 times with "ops check ok"
12 See 11. You write the catastrophic engine failure up as "Your ops checks suck"
13. You have 2 destroyed Continental cyclinders in your garage being used as screw holders.....and you do not remember which engine failures that those particular two came from.
14. You get ramp checked by a fed who is concerned about the amount of oil leaking from the right engine, and your response to him is "You should have seen the one I had last night!"
15. You have landed with one feathered at night and didn't even bother to inform ATC because you didn't want to wake up the boys in the firehouse.
16. See 15. The tower never even noticed.
17. You have shot an ILS to minimums with no instrument panel lights by holding a flashlight in your teeth.
convair007
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2005
- Posts
- 62
... you know what a jbar is and why not to straddle one.
... you understand that the weight listed on the bill of lading is a "theoretical weight"
... you can tell how much a pallet ways by the # of inches the rear tires of a forklift are off the ground
... the paintscheme on your airplane looks alot like that of a defunct carrier
... you understand that the weight listed on the bill of lading is a "theoretical weight"
... you can tell how much a pallet ways by the # of inches the rear tires of a forklift are off the ground
... the paintscheme on your airplane looks alot like that of a defunct carrier
Taylortucky
New member
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pilotyip
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 26, 2001
- Posts
- 13,629
You know you are a freight dog when you are hired at a major with out a 4-yr degree in front of pilots with a 4r-yr degree. Why because your prospective employer knows you have done and handled just about everything. You are a master at getting the job done. Story comes to mind of a freight dog pilot now Capt at Jet blue, his Airbus is diverted due to weather at destination, he knows the pax are hungry. He has been to this airport before, so he calls the FBO on the Skyphone and orders 22 pizzas. How did he know to do that, he had been there and done that before? Freight dogging the breakfast of champions. Anyone can fly an airplane; freight dogs are in a class by themselves.
Princedietrich
Retired Starchecker
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- Oct 27, 2004
- Posts
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wmudriver
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- Jan 28, 2003
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- 418
Princedietrich
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